I'm sorry, I said boot drive, but what I meant was a PAGING drive. Actually, depending on the OS, the boot drive would also contain various dynamic libraries where high-speed access would be useful. And the price of such a drive, which with mass production shouldn't cost much more than $200, would be lots less than the cost of enough RAM to be able to turn off paging with today's memory-hungry apps, and would be less $ than a flash drive.
Sounds like someone should be making specialized boot drives, 1.5" or smaller, with 5 gig capacities and super-fast seek times and rotation rates. The smaller the platter diameter, the less strain on the bearings and the more reliable they'll be at ludicrous speed.
Gerrymandering is an old, old game. There's already a solution for it; computer models exist that can generate maps that are fair. But with all the yelling the Democrats are doing right now, they'd never consider adopting a map-based system because then they'd lose the opportunity to gerrymander next time.
The conservative pundits are quite correct in pointing out that Democratic supporters keep repeating their lies, despite their having been disproven, in hopes people will take them as fact. Another person has aleady posted a good rebuttal, so I won't have to.
You're right about the "trying times to come", though. Don't try and paint me as a Bush partisan, because I plan to vote for Badnarik in November. Bush may be bad, but you folks just scare me.
The election was never stolen. The lawsuit was to prevent the Democrats from cherry-picking where and how they recounted votes. Furthermore, a recount WAS completed in early 2001 and Bush still won.
I didn't say SpaceShipOne does; I said the TECHNOLOGY behind it does. The monocoque, composite hull, the air-breathing "first stage", etc. SS1 is experimental, and now that it's provided some proof the concept is valid, more work will be done on it.
The technology behind what put SpaceShipOne up has the potential to reduce the cost of lofting cargo to orbit from the $2,000 per lb for the Space Shuttle to $50-75/lb. Adding on life support and a decent profit, that's $50,000 per ticket, not just for a quickie to 100+km, but to real low-orbit. Now, maybe you can't afford that much for a vacation at the future Motel-6 up there, but it's low enough, if you're skillful enough, for a company to pay your way if you want to work in orbit. The reduced cost also makes it more feasible to work on fun projects like Solar Powersats, or even a Beanstalk, which would drop the cost to orbit another order of magnitude or so.
The emergency brake may help to slow or stop a vehicle if the normal braking system goes out, but it can't fight the force of the engine -- especially if the cruise control makes the engine rev higher when the vehicle slows down.
I vote we discontinue the Politics category on Slashdot. The end result of this new category has been a venue for flames and nothing else. There are other forums for discussion on these issues; why clutter up a site dedicated to science and technology?
The FPUs use different strategies in performing their calculations, and as a result they don't produce identical results. I'm not sure which uses what method. But the floating point results aren't part of the program flow, per se, so minor differences aren't considered flaws. The difference that resulted in the recall of the Pentium (division is futile! Prepare to be approximated) was a lot larger than was acceptable.
I haven't seen the output, I don't know what the difference looks like, so there's no way I can make a judgement like that, but I do know the output is different.
A friend of mine is very into this subject, and we went into it in depth one day. The Intel and AMD floating point hardware will produce different results for calculations. The Intel hardware is apparently slightly more precise. How this affects video rendering is problematic; you wouldn't think a change umpteen orders of magnitude smaller than the result value should make a huge difference, but when you're talking about iteration and calculations involving fractals and chaos, it does make a difference. I've heard of people comparing the results and saying the output produced by Intel appears more attractive, but I haven't seen it.
I will tell you this much: Do NOT spread an animated rendering task among a mix of Intel and AMD machines; you will wind up with a noticeable flicker between frames.
I think you're reading something into what I said that isn't there. I expressed no opinion on whether converting broadcast to digital was desirable. Frankly, I wouldn't care if broadcast stayed analog; let the satellites and cable providers hawk HDTV.
The same poll also showed the rest of the world also wanted a weaker United States. I think that was what they had in mind when they were selecting Kerry as well.
Why is this IMO stupid article being posted on Slashdot anyway?
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I'm sorry, I said boot drive, but what I meant was a PAGING drive. Actually, depending on the OS, the boot drive would also contain various dynamic libraries where high-speed access would be useful. And the price of such a drive, which with mass production shouldn't cost much more than $200, would be lots less than the cost of enough RAM to be able to turn off paging with today's memory-hungry apps, and would be less $ than a flash drive.
Sounds like someone should be making specialized boot drives, 1.5" or smaller, with 5 gig capacities and super-fast seek times and rotation rates. The smaller the platter diameter, the less strain on the bearings and the more reliable they'll be at ludicrous speed.
With modern clients, by approximately 4 orders of magnitude.
Gerrymandering is an old, old game. There's already a solution for it; computer models exist that can generate maps that are fair. But with all the yelling the Democrats are doing right now, they'd never consider adopting a map-based system because then they'd lose the opportunity to gerrymander next time.
The conservative pundits are quite correct in pointing out that Democratic supporters keep repeating their lies, despite their having been disproven, in hopes people will take them as fact. Another person has aleady posted a good rebuttal, so I won't have to.
You're right about the "trying times to come", though. Don't try and paint me as a Bush partisan, because I plan to vote for Badnarik in November. Bush may be bad, but you folks just scare me.
Mock the Vote released one I think is even better...
The election was never stolen. The lawsuit was to prevent the Democrats from cherry-picking where and how they recounted votes. Furthermore, a recount WAS completed in early 2001 and Bush still won.
I didn't say SpaceShipOne does; I said the TECHNOLOGY behind it does. The monocoque, composite hull, the air-breathing "first stage", etc. SS1 is experimental, and now that it's provided some proof the concept is valid, more work will be done on it.
The technology behind what put SpaceShipOne up has the potential to reduce the cost of lofting cargo to orbit from the $2,000 per lb for the Space Shuttle to $50-75/lb. Adding on life support and a decent profit, that's $50,000 per ticket, not just for a quickie to 100+km, but to real low-orbit. Now, maybe you can't afford that much for a vacation at the future Motel-6 up there, but it's low enough, if you're skillful enough, for a company to pay your way if you want to work in orbit. The reduced cost also makes it more feasible to work on fun projects like Solar Powersats, or even a Beanstalk, which would drop the cost to orbit another order of magnitude or so.
The emergency brake may help to slow or stop a vehicle if the normal braking system goes out, but it can't fight the force of the engine -- especially if the cruise control makes the engine rev higher when the vehicle slows down.
What about making the extensions folder read-only then?
Would making the Mozilla program folder read-only work?
It's too bad Lex Luthor still owns all that sand that will become beachfront property...
SpaceShipOne-large.torrent
Not my tracker. This contains documentary-style footage of the launch.
Download video via BitTorrent at X-Prize-flight-1.wmv.torrent
I misread who was hosting the debate. Ask them nicely and cross your fingers. :-)
Whatever copyright Free-market.net chooses to use, I'm sure they'll be happy to give permission for redistribution.
I vote we discontinue the Politics category on Slashdot. The end result of this new category has been a venue for flames and nothing else. There are other forums for discussion on these issues; why clutter up a site dedicated to science and technology?
Been lookin', ain't been findin'. My original post certainly wasn't meant as a troll, and if you feel that way... [shrug]
http://vbulletin.newtek.com/archive/index.php/t-17 798.html 4 701&cid=8914630
http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10
The FPUs use different strategies in performing their calculations, and as a result they don't produce identical results. I'm not sure which uses what method. But the floating point results aren't part of the program flow, per se, so minor differences aren't considered flaws. The difference that resulted in the recall of the Pentium (division is futile! Prepare to be approximated) was a lot larger than was acceptable.
I haven't seen the output, I don't know what the difference looks like, so there's no way I can make a judgement like that, but I do know the output is different.
A friend of mine is very into this subject, and we went into it in depth one day. The Intel and AMD floating point hardware will produce different results for calculations. The Intel hardware is apparently slightly more precise. How this affects video rendering is problematic; you wouldn't think a change umpteen orders of magnitude smaller than the result value should make a huge difference, but when you're talking about iteration and calculations involving fractals and chaos, it does make a difference. I've heard of people comparing the results and saying the output produced by Intel appears more attractive, but I haven't seen it.
I will tell you this much: Do NOT spread an animated rendering task among a mix of Intel and AMD machines; you will wind up with a noticeable flicker between frames.
I think you're reading something into what I said that isn't there. I expressed no opinion on whether converting broadcast to digital was desirable. Frankly, I wouldn't care if broadcast stayed analog; let the satellites and cable providers hawk HDTV.
The same poll also showed the rest of the world also wanted a weaker United States. I think that was what they had in mind when they were selecting Kerry as well.
Why is this IMO stupid article being posted on Slashdot anyway?